ok, I spend around 30 min, clean my TOshiba, + change cooler (old one was 7-8 y.o. and I decide to put new) + put new thermo-paste. T droped down from 85 to 53. work better, faster. Toshiba. I'm totally satisfied.
You should replace "Toshiba" with "All" because this problem happens on all laptops that use that squirrel blower against tiny heatsink fins. This is a regular maintenance item I recommend for all of my customers with laptops, and I never find a clean heatsink whenever I clean them.
Thank you much for the video! I've taken many desktops apart and rebuilt them but I was always scared of ruining my Toshiba Qosmio. Now I know what to look forward to and how many parts will have to be accounted for in advance.
On a newer Satellite I cleaned out the very small amount of dust then I did remove the fan and re applied better heat sink material. I also found out that you can adjust speed in the bios that really reduced the temp to 46c from 70c+. The previous owner burned up the HDD so I installed a new one...Happy camper....
Fantastic video ! I like that you also covered the re-assembly. I brought a brand new Toshiba Satellite L755 to China about 6 years ago, it was a powerful machine (at the time -- though it probably still is). I had to stop using it after 3 years, due to extreme overheating though. Tried following videos and guides in the past (I'm no technician), but could never safely get a clear path to getting to the cpu fans and how to replace the thermal paste. This is it --- I'm going to reopen that machine and give it another go ! Any advice for keeping dust *_out_* of the machine after all this is done ?
André Amorim That seriously happened last year. The cooling fan was getting clogged up and the laptop kept overheating, or rather the laptop kept shutting itself off to *prevent* overheating and had to watch this video in two minute chunks. lol.
thank you for video. I'll try to do the same. my Toshiba is 7-8 y. o. now and all this years works almost 20 hours/day. 4 years - in a desert. I like that brand! all this comments with a lot of f.. words - just told to much about that people...
Thank you for a great video. Why are these people making fun of a free educational shop?. I also had aToshiba and started to over heat due to a clogged fan. It looks like it is a common symptom with this brand. Never happened with my P.C.Sony Or my Mac Pro. People learn something and listen since you got ears but BRAINS !,never mind. Salam.
clogged cooling fins at 9:04. surely there must be an easier way to just get at that lint. this (every?) laptop is like having a dryer with no removeable lint filter. my toshiba has started running way too hot and i just wish there was a simpler way to get rid of that lint/dust buildup
Great video. I've been a PC tech since the TRS-80 days in the 70's. I noticed you threw all of the screws into one bowl. How do you keep the different screw sizes straight when re-assembling?
I guess this goes in the line of.. If it fits its ok. If it doesn't force it so that ti would. I can't believe I'm watching this video in search of another model overheating.
great video mate but you have obviously done this before as i would have little piles of screw with names on them , i watched it i went O.M.G i might give it a go as i am not a tech type person but ill try anything to save some coin and learn i have a l650 d so it was fairly relevant did you have one screw left over for the hard drive ?
since it's cracked open, I'd blow the crap out of it to prevent old dirt recirculating. I'd also spray some synthetic lubricant into the fan bearing. And lastly you'll wanna see if the blades on the fan play a bit, if they do replace with a performance fan for gaming laptops. With a dremel, add additional intake and exhaust slots.
I've become a pro a disassembling my toshiba! i could work for them! jajaja. Also if you the right greace, you can open the fan up, and kindly pull the fins off with a pliers on the head (not the fins). It pops off. Then put bearing greace in there. Purrrrrrrrrrr. Also make sure you get good quality thermal paste. And dont apply too much as you can get too much spread and that can actually cause problems so i've heard.
What are the more reliable brands these days? My Toshiba does get hot, but it has run for 7 years! AND survived a light rain shower outside overnight, and has fixed itself numerous times. It has like AI or something...
sorry for the late reply, I saw it but forgot to reply. as for your claim, man my laptop is just too young (1 year old) and has overheating and shutdown even on sid meier 5 game
2 years later, and I agree with you mate. I have a Toshiba Satellite pro and it heats up to 100C playing even older games. Fresh thermal paste and a fan going full on, with a cooling pad! They put the most hopeless tiny vent on the bottom of the machine for air intake.
It doesn't really matter if you use something of quality that won't harden over time. This is an old article, so search out some newer info, but it will help you get ideas and help you shop. www.maximumpc.com/article/features/geek_tested_17_thermal_pastes_face?page=0,1 I'm currently using Thermalright Chill Factor 3 and it seems great. Try and research if your paste of choice will harden over time, that's even more important for something difficult to disassemble like most laptops. I've been heavily multitasking for over 10hrs and my system is at 42°C. Make sure to thoroughly and safely (ESD concern) clean off the old paste. I've used 99% iso alcohol and paper towels with good results. Use about a grain of rice sized piece for the new paste.
My motherboard is not that easy to disconnect. There are some really bizarre connection cables, one of which has something like a rigid, thin piece of plastic on the surface of one connection, and the connection itself is wrapped in a black matted fabric. And I'm not so keen on totally wrecking my motherboard.
thanks tony. can u help me wit my girlfriends laptop it has the black screen on start up. but the screen works fine. sa i swaped it in to my laptop and it worked fine. and i tryed to hook it up to a monitor but would not work. and my laptop does this. they are both the same as the one u just fixed. any help would be great. i did the trick of removeing the battery and hold down the on button for 60 sec and still notting
I use a paste called Arctic Silver that is a little expensive but works great! It's $9 for a very small tube, but it is enough to do a few laptops my cousin who is a computer nerd swears by the stuff. I put it on the CPU GPU as well as around the fan just transfer ports not actually on the CPU GPU LOL
It would have been funny if he took it apart and the insides were packed with Herion and marajauna. And maybe a gun too. And a picture of my girlfriend with no clothes on.
- Jesus, the background music is like chug-a-lugging a bottle of Karo syrup.... - By 4:54 I'd have been ready to get the rest of the way in using a claw hammer. - This isn't a laptop, it's one of those Russian nesting dolls. - I was guessing we'd end up looking at the table.... and I was right. - MORE FUCKING SCREWS!? Ever heard of "clips," Toshiba? - This design is insane. A part of the system that WILL need to be accessed, probably more than once in the lifetime of the laptop, requires this much of a dismantle... while you can pop the hard drive out like it's a DVD. I hope Toshiba doesn't manufacture pacemakers. - "Apply new heat transfer paste." Dandy, a product that will require a ninety minute drive, one way, to purchase. (I'm waaay out in the boonies.) Screw it, I'm gonna use toothpaste, or Astroglide, or something.... - Final step: stand there wondering, "Why the hell do I still have two screws left over?" Oh, and Toshiba? Blow me. You're the Hyundai Excel of laptops.
I thought this video was gonna show the warning and then the after he fixed it cause my computer keeps giving a overheating warning every 10 second or 1 minute i open it.
Fuck that, I'l just end up breaking my laptop for good, why couldn't they just put the fan in a spot where you could reach it by taking apart 1 screw..
Seems an aweful lot of work and BS to clean a fan.. I mean gotta buy special thermal paste and all sorts of crap.. how much does a shop charge for this?
You can. I was a little scared at first too. The only hard parts are 1) removing the cables under the keyboard and 2)keeping track of all the screws. If you can do those two things, you can do eeet! I've done it like 3x on my Toshiba and I'm great with things like cars, but not as delicate, so to speak, but it has survived me, it will survive you.
Consider just setting up a video cam on a tripod aimed down at your laptop on the table. THEN...be the star in your own feature length video! Whenever stuck, just fast review the video forwards or backwards. HINT: use and ice cube tray to keep screws organized!
